tanith@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Michael D Kretzer) (06/18/91)
I notice that a rather complete list of OS/2 Shareware and Public Domain Software was recently posted to comp.os.os2.misc. Would nice person from the New Haven, Connecticut area start uploading some of the software to comp.binaries.os2 so they could be distributed more widely? I think everyone in the OS/2 community would appreciate this... BTW please submit to os2bin@csd4.csd.uwm.edu Mike Kretzer OS/2 Binaries Moderator
rommel@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Kai-Uwe Rommel) (06/19/91)
In article <13188@uwm.edu> tanith@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Michael D Kretzer) writes: >Would nice person from the New Haven, Connecticut area start uploading >some of the software to comp.binaries.os2 so they could be distributed >more widely? I think everyone in the OS/2 community would appreciate >this... Yes! For example, the HP Laserjet III driver ... (Two archives, HPLJ3DLL.ZIP and OS2V13.ZIP) BTW, the list said, that the BBS is a Fidonet node. What exactly does that mean? Is it reachable by e-mail from internet (which address?) and does it have a mail server? Kai Uwe Rommel /* Kai Uwe Rommel, Munich ----- rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de */ DOS ... is still a real mode only non-reentrant interrupt handler, and always will be. -Russell Williams
lowey@herald.usask.ca (Kevin Lowey,159 Physics,(306) 966-4826,(306) 249-3232) (06/19/91)
From Kai-Uwe Rommel: > BTW, the list said, that the BBS is a Fidonet node. What exactly does > that mean? Is it reachable by e-mail from internet (which address?) and > does it have a mail server? > Kai Uwe Rommel Fidonet is a hobbiest network which runs mainly on personal computers. It's similar in some way to uucp/usenet. Both provide private e-mail, public special interest newsgroups (echomail). etc. The main difference is that Usenet runs mostly on multi-user minicomputers, where as Fidonet runs mainly on one-caller at-a-time microcomputer systems. Usenet is also carried more on TCP/IP / leased lines now. Fidonet still depends on normal telephone lines or occasionally packet-switching networks. Fidonet systems are identified by their Fidonet node number. For example, the BBS I run is Fidonet node 1:140/43. 1: is the Zone, which in this case stands for North America. 140 is the net number, which in this case stands for Saskatchewan. 43 is the node number, which in this case stands for the University of Saskatchewan Fidonet BBS. Occasionally you may also see a "point" number, as in 1:140/43.5. A point is basically a "smart" user who uses specialized software to copy the mail onto his own computer so he can read it off-line. You CAN sent mail to fidonet through numerous Internet gateways. For example, to send mail to Kevin Lowey at 1:140/43.5, you would send to the internet address kevin_lowey@p5.f43.n140.z1.Fidonet.Org Usually points are not used, so you would leave off the "p5." in the example above. Most usenet nodes allow you to send mail to "Postmaster" as a generic person in charge of the node. In Fidonet, there is a similar convention of sending mail to the user "Sysop". Fidonet has a regulation that you do not route binaries through the mail. The reason for this is that each sysop between the source and the destination has to pay the long-distance costs themselves (it is a HOBBY network). These costs get way out of hand when you have to uuencode the files, etc. Instead, people are expected to have their BBS systems call other systems and do a "File Request". This is a special type of mail message that asks the other system to send the files (sort of a similar idea to Anonymous FTP, but not the same thing). The difference here is that the user who wants the file is the only one who pays any long-distance to get the file. I know of no way to request a file be sent to an address on the Internet. I've got most of the files available on Fernwood on my BBS (306) 966-4857, 14400 HST-Dual Standard modem. I'm going to try and find some time to send the files in my collection to the OS2 binaries moderator. However, with the slowpitch leagues, and taking 2 days each week off as holidays, I may not get time for a while to sort through it all and find what has and has not already been posted. I currently have about 90M of MS-DOS, OS/2 and OS/2 family mode applications available. I think about 20M of that is OS/2 specific, and 10M is OS/2 Family mode applications. These are all stored in PKZIP format. - Kevin Lowey
jwohl@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (Jeremy Wohl) (06/22/91)
In article <13188@uwm.edu> tanith@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Michael D Kretzer) writes: > >I notice that a rather complete list of OS/2 Shareware and Public Domain >Software was recently posted to comp.os.os2.misc. > >Would nice person from the New Haven, Connecticut area start uploading >some of the software to comp.binaries.os2 so they could be distributed >more widely? I think everyone in the OS/2 community would appreciate >this... The SysOp of the Fernwood BBS is Emmitt Dove. He provides distributions (of his OS/2 collection) to other FidoNet BBSes, particularly those in Europe. Anyway, about a month ago I spoke with him about some kind of link with the internet community. He said: Fine, send me disks or a tape. I sent him a tape thinking that nic.funet.fi (I'm co-moderator of the OS/2 section) and comp.binaries.os2 would benefit greatly. Unfortunately, his inet email address has since died and I have received no response from him (the last was "got the tape, I'll try it out", etc.) through snail. If anybody can reach him (my fido<->inet attempts have been in vain) I'd greatly appreciate some information (and my tape!) Thanks. -- -- Jeremy Wohl / wohl@max.physics.sunysb.edu / jeremy@cs.sunysb.edu